Slowly entering back into the fashion fold since he was dismissed as the creative director of Dior following an anti-Semitic rant aimed at a couple in a Paris café, the British designer poses alongside his model friend Moss. Wearing a top hat and tails, Galliano is depicted taking a self-portrait of himself and Moss, who channels a Twenties vibe with slicked-back hair, a yellow, fur coat and pencil-thin eyebrows reminscent of Greta Garbo. The image was taken by Vogue favourite,
Tim Walker.

"The scene is set. I lean into Kate's ear. 'Can you keep a secret?'" writes Galliano in the text accompanying the shoot. He continues: "I am now feeling so much love in this studio that it takes me back. Her only script is the dress she's wearing."

Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman commented: "When I asked John to write a few words to describe his concept for the shoot, I didn't expect such a vivid picture to arrive."

Since his fall from grace in March 2011, Galliano attended rehab and was asked by Moss to create the wedding gown for her nuptials to musician Jamie Hince later that year. He was found guilty of racist and antisemitic abuse and fined, but was spared jail. He was also fired from his eponymous label, which is now headed up by his former right-hand man, Bill Gaytten.

Giving his first post-dissmissal interview to Vanity Fair earlier this year, he admitted that his behaviour was "the worst thing I have said in my life, but I didn't mean it.... I have been trying to find out why that anger was directed at this race. I now realize I was so f**king angry and so discontent with myself that I just said the most spiteful thing I could."

The 52-year-old briefly worked with New York Fashion Week designer Oscar de la Renta in the run up to his catwalk show in February, and was due to teach a master class at Parsons in New York
until it was cancelled
due to his unwillingness to discuss his career.

It was recently announced that Moss will join the editorial team at British Vogue as a contributing fashion editor, with her first shoot to break in spring 2014.